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2015 Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia, LLC. All Rights ReservedRecord Labels Hiring Students as Spies to Rat Out Filesharing Classmates Between iTunes (AAPL) Google Music (GOOG) Amazon Cloud Drive (AMZN) Pandora (P) Spotify and countless other streaming music outlets it&rsquo;s never been easier -- or more legal -- to enjoy cheap and free music while on the go. Common sense would tell us that it&rsquo;s the result of record labels easing up on their draconian protection of copyrighted property but a new report from TorrentFreak says some are just as greedy and underhanded as ever. International copyright pirate hunters are recruiting college students as cyber hitmen to infiltrate the seedy world of torrent downloaders to take down their fellow ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/06/13/record-labels-hiring-students-as/
Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:05:00 EDTClear Channel Agrees to Performance Royalties If you hadn&rsquo;t noticed the music industry is in a bit of a rough patch. Plummeting album sales and the lower profit margins of digital purchases from outlets like iTunes (AAPL) Amazon (AMZN) and Google Music (GOOG) make earning a living as an artist harder than it&rsquo;s been since the invention of the Victrola. A new agreement between the nation&rsquo;s largest radio conglomerate and Nashville label could be the first step in the other direction. At the very least it represents a potential sea change in how artists are compensated for the use of their performances. Currently royalties for ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/06/06/clear-channel-agrees-to-performance/
Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:39:00 EDTVHS Refuses to Die I&rsquo;m not sure but I believe the last videocassette I bought was Air Force One a woefully underrated classic during which Harrison Ford defeats Russian-accented terrorists and saves his family aboard the eponymous plane. I think I was around 10. After that along with the rest of America I moved on to DVDs and then gave up on DVDs in favor of iTunes (AAPL) and Netflix (NFLX). Over the weekend I saw several of the discs abandoned in front of peoples&rsquo; homes in the space usually reserved for bedbug furniture. Except apparently they&rsquo;re back. And by they I don&rsquo;t ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/05/29/vhs-refuses-to-die/
Tue, 29 May 2012 14:23:00 EDTApple Not to Blame for Despicable Price Hike of Whitney Houston Album Last year Microsoft (MSFT) came under fire for turning singer Amy Winehouse&#39;s death into a money-making opportunity. Only a few months after Bing used the devastating earthquake in Japan as Twitter ad campaign Redmond promoted Winehouse&#39;s album Back to Black with its Zune Twitter account and urged fans to download it from the music service. Following the backlash Microsoft released a statement: &quot;Apologies to everyone if our earlier Amy Winehouse &#39;download&#39; tweet seemed purely commercially motivated. Far from the case we assure you.&quot; And as that mea culpa failed to convince us otherwise another posthumous money grab has revealed ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/02/13/apple-not-to-blame-for/
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:25:00 EDTApple Embroiled in iBook Publishing Controversy Yesterday Apple (AAPL) bestowed a gift to the legions of students with sore backs and empty wallets and announced the iBooks Author app. Billed as a replacement for the heavy and expensive stacks of hardcover textbooks that students are forced to purchase each year the free Mac app will allow textbook authors to publish interactive and updatable content -- complete with image galleries video comment sections etc. And a boon to the author the e-books can be published directly from the app into Apple&#39;s iBookstore. But therein lay the controversy. According to iBook Author&#39;s end user license agreement if ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/01/20/apple-embroiled-in-ebook-publishing/
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:31:00 EDTMost Pirated Film of 2011 Still Earned $626M The MPAA needs another argument. Like the RIAA before it the film industry&#39;s collection of ornery busybodies has long argued that piracy has a massive detrimental effect on profits. Along with its dubious methods of rating films the MPAA has equally suspect -- and widely debunked -- arguments on how every BitTorrent download takes money from the studios&#39; well-stuffed coffers. But as we saw with the hugely successful opening weekend and global box office of X-Men Origins: Wolverine -- despite the fact that the leaked workprint was downloaded 4.5 million times by Fox&#39;s (NWS) estimation -- the most pirated ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/12/28/most-pirated-film-of-2011/
Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:12:00 EDT10 Ways to Improve Google Music This week Google dropped the beta from its Google Music service and integrated an online store with major label partnerships. Universal Music Group Sony Music Entertainment and EMI hopped on board with Warner Music Group being the sole holdout among the Big Four and indie labels continue to be added as well. Playing catchup to the likes of iTunes and Amazon the store offers 320Kbps-quality songs which won&#39;t count against your music locker&#39;s free 20 000-track limit. Users can also share purchased music on Google+ for a free listen. In addition Google Music will serve up some free daily ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/11/17/10-ways-to-improve-google/
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:53:00 EDTUniversal Pulls a &quot;Netflix Rewind&quot;Like its streaming video brethren Universal has backpedaled on an unconscionably boneheaded decision.On Monday Netflix announced it has killed plans to branch off DVD rentals onto a different site and brand named Qwikster -- disappointing those who hoped to see a hastened demise of physical media through unnecessary complications. And just three days later Universal has decided to quash an experiment which would allow folks to rent an Eddie Murphy movie for $60.Quick: Which plan was more fraught with disaster?Last week Universal dipped a toe in a crazy new revenue scheme by offering to stream the upcoming Ben Stiller-Eddie Murphy ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/10/13/universal-pulls-a-netflix-rewind/
Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:56:00 EDTNetflix Kills QwiksterWell that was Qwik.Not even a month since Netflix announced that it would be branching off its DVD rental service to the new site and brand Qwikster the online rental house has thought better of the idea. Surprisingly the move -- which would force customers into a separate account a separate site and a separate queue -- wasn't too popular among the masses. The bumbling decision followed the equally unpopular decision to split its unlimited rental option into two separate subscription services. Hopefully the Netflix cafeteria has enough crow to go around.But despite DVD's precipitous decline and its inevitable demise ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/10/10/netflix-kills-qwikster/
Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:06:00 EDTInfographic: Never Leave Your House AgainIt's a glorious time for the agoraphobic.Thanks to Amazon iTunes Netflix FreshDirect Gmail Facebook Twitter and a vast array of other online services there's little reason to ever leave your home again. Short of a fire or a broken leg you could potentially sit and stare at the same four walls for the remainder of your life.We may have traded face-to-face interaction for convenience but what are we losing from a conversation at a candlelit restaurant that we can't gain from a Google+ video chat? Screaming children? Valet parking? Body odor?It's no wonder why many folks opt to stay in ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/09/22/infographic-never-leave-your-house/
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